Talk:Little Island at Pier 55

Did you know nomination

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The result was: promoted by Valereee (talk) 18:19, 6 July 2021 (UTC)

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Little Island panorama

• ... that the new Little Island park in New York City (pictured) sits on 132 pots and cost $260 million? Source: Gannon, Devin (May 20, 2021). "NYC's newest park Little Island finally opens on the Hudson River". 6sqft.
  • ALT1:... that the newly completed Little Island at Pier 55 park in New York City (pictured) had been canceled in 2017, only to be revived after just 43 days? Source: Bagli, Charles V. (October 25, 2017). "'Diller Island' Is Back From the Dead". The New York Times.
  • ALT2:... that Douglas Durst, who financed lawsuits against the Little Island park, claimed the park's promoter Barry Diller said he wished Durst had been killed by his own brother? Source: "Futuristic NY pier project pits billionaire vs billionaire". AP NEWS. July 23, 2017.
  • ALT3:... that New York City parkgoers, booking reservations for Little Island at Pier 55 (pictured), caused Little Island's website to crash on its opening day on May 21? Source: https://gothamist-client.prod.nypr.digital/arts-entertainment/photos-explore-little-island-nycs-luxurious-new-floating-park-hudson
  • ALT4:... that Little Island at Pier 55 (pictured), a new artificial island park in New York City, was described as being "in the theatrical vein of 18th century English garden follies"? Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/20/arts/little-island-barry-diller.html

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Heiligen-Geist-Kapelle, Bruck

5x expanded by Epicgenius (talk). Self-nominated at 22:52, 22 May 2021 (UTC).

Interesting park, and really recent, wow! On fine sources, no copyvio obvious. In all hooks, pictured is missing, but I can say right away that I like ALT1 best of the lot. I'd also interested in the website crash on opening day, and the NYT critic. Quite generally for any hook: I believe that the full name of the park sounds more respectful, and would grab more attention just by being longer, and I think File:Little Island Panorama (50236511951).jpg (or a crop) shows better in small size. Good luck! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:40, 26 May 2021 (UTC)

@Gerda Arendt: Thanks for the review. I have added these extra hooks, fixed the name of the park, and swapped out the image. Epicgenius (talk) 19:07, 26 May 2021 (UTC)

I like the extras, but tink they should have some info about the extreme newness, - for ALT3 that could be the date, for the other the word "new". Will you try? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:14, 26 May 2021 (UTC)

@Gerda Arendt: Thanks, I have done this. Epicgenius (talk) 21:15, 26 May 2021 (UTC)

Thank you, and like ALT4. Here's my version of the other

ALT3a: ... that when Little Island at Pier 55 (pictured) opened in New York City on 21 May 2021, ticket bookings caused the park's website to crash? - You can play with it, I need sleep.

The image is licensed and says more than 1000 words. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:26, 26 May 2021 (UTC)

@Gerda Arendt: Regarding ALT3b which you removed, I was tweaking 3a a bit. I clarified it was "ticket bookings" instead of just "bookings". Maybe "a large number of reservations" or something similar may work. Epicgenius (talk) 00:01, 27 May 2021 (UTC)

Thank you for explaining, - see, I was tired and didn't read that far, sorry about that. I now just tweaked ALT3a by adding "ticket" to it. But next time, please don't place a hook above the tick symbol. (Better but not as urgent: don't place later ALTs in the nomination section but in the flow of the conversation. The nomination is signed with a date.) - "Excessive" is a pov word, any other phrase? "the run on tickets"? ... something that direction? ... you are right that otherwise just the software might be blamed ;) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:12, 27 May 2021 (UTC)

It's all right. You'd probably expect that I'd know not to move hooks above ticks after 300 or so DYK nominations (I even forgot how many), but I still have a lot to learn. I'd suggest something like this:

• ALT3c: ... that when Little Island at Pier 55 (pictured) opened in New York City on 21 May 2021, a large volume of ticket bookings caused the park's website to crash? Epicgenius (talk) 16:23, 27 May 2021 (UTC)

  fine, thank you --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:43, 27 May 2021 (UTC)

GA Review

This review is transcluded from Talk:Little Island at Pier 55/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: Some Dude From North Carolina (talk · contribs) 21:16, 21 July 2021 (UTC)

• "guiderails" should be written as two words.
• "food and drink" → "food and drinks"
• Add a hyphen between "custom made".
• Remove the comma after "proper environmental review".
• Capitalize titles ("mayor", "governor", "senator").
• "work site" should be written as one word.
• Wikilink Michael Kimmelman and Derek Blasberg.
• Wall Street Journal → The Wall Street Journal
• Mark references from The New York Times with "|url-access=limited".
• Mark references from The Real Deal New York with "|url-access=limited".
• Mark references from The Wall Street Journal with "|url-access=subscription".
• Ping when done. Some Dude From North Carolina (talk) 13:27, 22 July 2021 (UTC)

  Some Dude From North Carolina, thanks. I have done all of these. Epicgenius (talk) 15:47, 22 July 2021 (UTC)

"Renamed" after what?

One sentence reads as follows:

"The project was renamed Little Island in 2019 and opened on May 21, 2021."

But we are not told what its name was before this "renaming".

I hope someone knowledgeable about this subject can fix this.